Circular Time – not Cycles
– a matter of interpretation
by Elizabeth Newton
Ancient Understanding of Circular
Time versus Cycles.
According to many writers, the ancients had an understanding of cycles,
for example, the Yugas. In fact the CPAK
conference encourages study of precession and ancient knowledge.
Could it be that the supposed ancient understanding of cycles was in
reality an understanding of circular time?
Assertion
That the Mayan Calender is expressed in circular format is the basis for
my assertion that we exist within circular time. Most have interpreted the Mayan Calendar to
be representative of cycles. I do not
accept this interpretation is correct. Other
ancient calendars were also expressed in circular format, suggesting at some
time in our distance past, time was understood as being circular in nature.
Using processes from financial auditing, I test the assertion that we
exist within circular time, as distinct from experiencing cycles along a linear
time line.
Relevance of Circular time versus
Cycle.
A Circle begins and ends at the same point. If we live within a time circle, then we are
inevitably moving towards the point when the circle began.
The existence of a linear time line within the time circle is an
illusion. Whilst within the circle,
movement around the circle has the illusion of moving in a linear direction,
whereas in reality, movement is towards the beginning/end.
A cycle assumes a linear time line, with the various cycles moving in
and out of that linear line.
If the Mayan calendar is indeed a circle, as I have asserted, then the
‘end times’ are not a prophecy. When the
time circle began, it would have been known when it would close.
Disprove the Assertion
Unlike scientific methods, which seek to obtain evidence to prove a
theory, financial auditing works in a type of reverse fashion. An assertion is made, which is based upon a
degree of factual reality, then the auditor seeks to disprove the
assertion. For example, an organisation
asserts that it has a term deposit for $100,000. Superficially it might look like the auditor
attempts to prove the $100,000 exists.
In reality, the auditing process attempts to disprove the assertion that
the $100,000 term deposits exists.
As my experience is in financial auditing as distinct from the
scientific process, on a continual basis, I test my theory of Circular time in
an effort to disprove it.
So far, I have not found anything to disprove the theory of circular
time.
Considerations
I have considered -
1. Time
space. Science suggests that time/space
is curved. A curve suggests a
connection with something circular in nature.
2.
Ancient
understandings. The ancients had an
understanding of circles/cycles. It is
unclear whether original ancient understanding was of time as circular or
cyclical, although at some stage the two became one and the same. Ancient calendars were depicted in circular
format, which suggests an original understanding of circular time. The Phaestos Disk is circular. The Mayan
Calendar is circular. The Egyptian
calendar is circular.
3.
The Great
Pyramid can be mathematically expressed as a circular pentagon. The Mayan calendar also exists exactly
within the pentagon. * [I have Greg Mitchells permission draw from his work on
this issue].
4.
Some of
Don Barone’s mathematical work, which seeks to prove that the three Giza
Pyramids and the solar system are based upon the same mathematical blueprint,
has Giza
existing within a mathematical circle.
5.
Our
planets are spheres, which have the same shape as a circle – the sphere is 3
dimensional; the circle is 2 dimensional.
6.
The planets
orbit the sun in a circular manner known as Ellipses, which are a closed curve.
7. Consider the ancient symbol of the ouroborus,
depicting serpent or dragon eating its
own tail. Often interpreted as the end
of one cycle and the beginning of another, the Ouroborus nevertheless creates a
circle. In my opinion, the ancients were quite clear
in what they were trying to depict – a circle, not one cycle ending and another
beginning. Images of the Ouroborus, sometimes
with two serpents swallowing each others tail, can be found throughout ancient
societies and in alchemy.
8.
The
Phaistos Disc (also spelled Phaistos Disk, Phaestos Disc) is a disk of fired
clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the Greek island of Crete, possibly
dating to the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC). It is about
15 cm (5.9 in) in diameter and covered on both sides with a spiral of stamped
symbols. Its purpose and meaning, and even its original geographical place of
manufacture, remain disputed, making it one of the most famous mysteries of
archaeology. This unique object is now on display at the archaeological museum of Heraklion. Most notably the disk was constructed in
circular format.
9.
There are
many other examples of ancient relics of symbolic importance to an ancient
society, all expressed in circular format.
Example
of Circular versus Cyclical time.
If you have you seen the movie Prometheus, then
this example might appeal to you.
In Prometheus, a linear time line is assumed. The aliens came to our planet eons ago, leaving
their DNA, to enable the creation of humans.
The movie plot revolved around the aliens returning to earth with a view
to destroying what they had created.
However, we might get a different result if our
existence is encompassed in a time circle.
If the creator began the circle at the exact time of the alien
destructive visit, then we could have been created out of the alien DNA – not
from a prior visit, but from the beginning and ending of the time circle at the
exact point when the alien arrived.
To summarise - one alien visit in circular time, two in a cycle.
Conclusion
If the Mayan calendar represents circular time, then the ‘end times’ are
not a prophecy of the future. Rather the
closing of the time circle represents the end and the beginning, which were
always one.
